still here
Jan. 26th, 2006 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
memelainai cannot believe that it has been more than two months since my last entry. but then, well, i suppose i've been kind of busy. i traveled extensively on business in october and early november - not to mention the 9 cons in 12 weekends that we did for the denver2008 bid. then from thanksgiving (LOScon) until the 16th of December i was on an extended trip to pleasanton (business), portland (con), london (business), york (early music festival), and paris (business). by the time i got home it was practically christmas, and by the time christmas was over it was practically COSine.
COSine - our Colorado Springs SF convention - went very well and we had a super time with our guest authors Sharon Lee![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rolanni and Steve Miller kinzel. This was the third COSine, and the second that i have chaired. next year i am NOT chairing, and NOT doing programming, although i have offered to do reg.
got a phone call from my wonderful nephew eddie while i was working at home monday morning after COSine. he was in town for a trade show, and available for dinner the next night. so, although we were doing prep for an SCA feast on saturday, we assembled the colorado side of the family (robin and fred, megan, kurt, and anna) and terry made us pot roast, and eddie brought merlot. we chatted family news for several hours (and also cooked 16 pounds of pickled brussels sprouts). found out who's in jail, who's out, who's married, who's pregnant, who's pregnant and should be married but isn't. a generally good time was had by all - especially those who ate the coconut cake. me, i had TWO pieces.
we got sad news from kent's parents this week. his mother has been diagnosed with non-hogkins lymphoma. this is not a surprise. she has been in and out of the hospital with very low blood counts since last summer. the doctors kept scratching their heads and saying "hmmm, she must be bleeding somewhere..." - but she wasn't, no matter how many times they checked. i'm astounded that they could miss the lymphoma for six months during numerous exams, but then i don't suppose that mom exactly helped them out with pertinent information either. in any case, mom is declining chemo, considering other therapy options, and telling us all not to fret because she's 80 years old and pretty tired. i respect the decision, but am sad nonetheless.
back to work. always back to work. if i finish one set of reports today (november's) i will only be two weeks behind. and if i finish the december reports next week before the january data posts - i'll actually be caught up. sort of. barring emergencies. or other assignments. or another reorg...
going to go get REAL coffee and then dig in.
why, she asks, didn't i act on my childhood passion to be a writer? then i could spend my life using word instead of excel. and that would be different, how?
COSine - our Colorado Springs SF convention - went very well and we had a super time with our guest authors Sharon Lee
rolanni and Steve Miller kinzel. This was the third COSine, and the second that i have chaired. next year i am NOT chairing, and NOT doing programming, although i have offered to do reg.got a phone call from my wonderful nephew eddie while i was working at home monday morning after COSine. he was in town for a trade show, and available for dinner the next night. so, although we were doing prep for an SCA feast on saturday, we assembled the colorado side of the family (robin and fred, megan, kurt, and anna) and terry made us pot roast, and eddie brought merlot. we chatted family news for several hours (and also cooked 16 pounds of pickled brussels sprouts). found out who's in jail, who's out, who's married, who's pregnant, who's pregnant and should be married but isn't. a generally good time was had by all - especially those who ate the coconut cake. me, i had TWO pieces.
we got sad news from kent's parents this week. his mother has been diagnosed with non-hogkins lymphoma. this is not a surprise. she has been in and out of the hospital with very low blood counts since last summer. the doctors kept scratching their heads and saying "hmmm, she must be bleeding somewhere..." - but she wasn't, no matter how many times they checked. i'm astounded that they could miss the lymphoma for six months during numerous exams, but then i don't suppose that mom exactly helped them out with pertinent information either. in any case, mom is declining chemo, considering other therapy options, and telling us all not to fret because she's 80 years old and pretty tired. i respect the decision, but am sad nonetheless.
back to work. always back to work. if i finish one set of reports today (november's) i will only be two weeks behind. and if i finish the december reports next week before the january data posts - i'll actually be caught up. sort of. barring emergencies. or other assignments. or another reorg...
going to go get REAL coffee and then dig in.
why, she asks, didn't i act on my childhood passion to be a writer? then i could spend my life using word instead of excel. and that would be different, how?
